Ian Macdonald (Queensland, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

Senator Ludlam may well want us to get jobs in the privatised SBS that he so wrongly predicts. What would we do? Would we get a salary of $700,000 or $800,000 or $900,000 like some of the bosses at SBS? At the ABC, one of the presenters—who is the guy who does Q&A? What is his annual salary? It makes yours look infinitesimal, Senator Ludlam, so don't take up that argument.

I can understand your feigned expertise on commercialisation and advertising. After all, the Greens political party is practically the plaything of Graeme Wood—one of the great advertisers, on all mediums, in days gone by—who gave to the Greens the biggest-ever single donation to a political party in the history of this country. Something like $1.6 million was donated to the Greens political party by a guy who makes his money out of advertising. You might recall, Mr Acting Deputy President, it was the same Mr Graeme Wood—